BNFO 301 
Introduction to Bioinformatics
Questionnaire on notes: Strategies of Life and Protein
(please press SUBMIT button when finished)
Spring 2005 

I. Basic Information

A. Your name 

B. What do you need? I would like to have a feel of who everyone is and where they stand. I certainly don't. Could you help me out by giving me a summary of where you are regarding what has happened thus far in the semester and what you feel you need to make this a useful experience for you?

II. Biological Information
A. Do you understand how information passes from DNA through RNA to protein? (at the level set in the reading) 

B. Can imagine a biological system that displays a degree of complexity suggested in the reading? 

C. Do you see (at the level set in the reading) how genes might determine the function of an organism? 

D. Do you understand how amphipathic lipids can self-assemble into the sphere shown in Fig. 3B? 

E. Do you understand the relationship between monomers and the four major types of biological polymers? 

F. Do you see in general how enzymes might determine the nature of a cell? 

G. Choose up to two study questions that you would most like discussed in class:

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Comments for questions II.A through II.F:
III. Protein structure and function
A. Do you understand what an amino acid is and how they differ from one another? 

B. Do you understand how amino acids are joined to form proteins? 

C. Do you understand in general how the sequence of amino acids of a protein contribute to its ultimate three-dimensional shape? 

D. Do you understand the distinction between primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structures of proteins? 

E. Do you understand how the entire three-dimensional structure participates in forming the critical active site of chymotrypsin? 

F. Do you understand two ways in which hydrophobic amino acids can direct a protein to sit in a membrane? 

G. Do you see how a greater ability to predict protein function from its primary structure would change the world we live in? 

H. Do you see what all of this has to do with bioinformatics? 

I. Choose up to three study questions that you would most like discussed in class:

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Comments for questions III.A through III.H:
IV. Put here any miscellaneous comments, questions, suggestions, concerns you may have
 

Thanks!

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